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Topic: Going Places-Bugs

Common Core Standards: RL3.2 Recount stories including fables, folktales and myths from diverse cultures and determine the central message and explain how it is conveyed through key details in text.

RL3.3 Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

W3.3a Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

L3.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

L3.1e Form and use simple verb tenses.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will identify the setting, characters and plot of a story. 2. Students will monitor comprehension and clarify details to understand text. 3. Students will organize these details in a story map. 4. Students will plan and write a fictional narrative piece using story structure. 5. Students will edit and revise their responses.

Suggested Additional Readings: __The Ant and the Dove__-Aesop

Resource Links: [|Ants] [|Two Bad Ants Point-of-View Writing]

Activities: 1. Students will create a narrative predicting what will happen to the ants in their next adventure. 2. Compare and contrast the lives of ants in __Two Bad Ants__ and __The Ant and the Dove.__

Assessments: 1. PB Volume 2, p.78 2. Writing Rubric 1-4 (TE Resource Section, p. 16) 3. Weekly Test, Unit 5, Lesson 21

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